Truly enjoy your New Year poem, Jill, especially now that I live a rural life. And if crows be a good omen for the new year… then good on me, as I was greeted, this morning, with a racket by a bunch of very noisy crows. It made me smile, I do so like all the birdlife here in New Mexico. Thank you for your writings, they continue to encourage me to look around my own world more.